[nylug-talk] The NY Linux Users Group presents Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan, CTO of Evergrid, on Workload Management for Linux

[Gregg Levine]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Michael K Dolan <mdoln at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Jim, the meeting date says Wed April 30th... in the past.
>
> If you send me a DeLorean and some plutonium I'll try to be there ;-)
>
> Mike
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>
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> nylug-talk-bounces+mdoln=us.ibm.com at nylug.org wrote on 05/19/2008 02:41:24
> PM:
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>> [nylug-talk] The NY Linux Users Group presents Dr. Srinidhi
>> Varadarajan, CTO of Evergrid, on Workload Management for Linux
>>
>> Jim Gleason
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>> to:
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>> nylug-talk, nylug-announce
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>> 05/19/2008 02:47 PM
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>> Sent by:
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>> nylug-talk-bounces+mdoln=us.ibm.com at nylug.org
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>> Please respond to NYLUG Technical Discussion
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>> Wednesday, April 30, 2008
>> 6:30pm-8:00 PM
>> IBM
>> 590 Madison Ave, 12th Floor
>> corner of 57th Street
>>
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>>
>>                    Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan
>>                              - on -
>>                  Workload Management for Linux
>>                (plus raffle for BOSE Headphones)
>>
>> We have covered many aspects of Linux clustering recently ranging from
>> wiring, provisioning nodes and running jobs. Now that your cluster is
> getting
>> useful work done, the next important step is to optimize workload control
> and
>> maximize the efficiency of your system. Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan, CTO of
>> Evergrid, will discuss how their workload management technology for
> Linux,
>> Load Manager, can deliver:
>>
>>     1. Application consolidation, to maximize server utilization while
>> delivering a predictable level of service.
>>     2. Detailed monitoring of application resource usage - without
>> modification to either the OS or application and with negligible
> overhead.
>>
>> Load Manager delivers fine grain control and monitoring of system
> resource
>> independently across CPU, memory, network read / write & storage read /
>> write. As a user space technology, it is completely transparent to
>> both the OS
>> and application with minimal overhead (typically less than 1%). Load
> Manager
>> enables multiple applications to be consolidated on a single server by
>> placing users, groups or applications into Containers, and allocating
>> resources to these Containers. It has a dynamic rebalancing system where
>> unused system resources allocated to one Container can be reallocated to
>> other Containers on the same server, thereby maximizing server
> utilization
>> while guaranteeing SLA.s. Srinidhi will discuss and demonstrate multiple
>> use cases for both consolidating and monitoring applications using this
>> technology today (supporting RHEL 3, 4 & 5, SLES 9 & 10), and discuss
>> how Load Manager will leverage the emerging Control Groups technology to
>> deliver even greater functionality on upcoming distributions (RHEL 6
>> / SLES 11).
>>
>> Your open source feedback is needed!
>> During the last 15 minutes of this meeting, Evergrid will open the floor
>> to comments about which components could be open sourced and offer
>> the most value to
>> the community.
>>
>> Raffle for BOSE Headphones:
>> At the conclusion of the meeting, Evergrid will be raffling off a pair of
>
>> high-end BOSE headphones.
>>
>> About Srinidhi Varadarajan:
>> Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan is the CTO of Evergrid, as well as the Director
>> of the Terascale Computing Facility and an Associate Professor in
>> the Department
>> of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. His research interests are in the
>> area of high performance computer systems, in particular: fault tolerance
>
>> in large-scale distributed systems, network emulation, network routing
>> algorithms, compiler directed frameworks and parallel simulation
>> algorithms. Srinidhi heads the Computing Systems Research Laboratory and
>> serves as a core faculty in the Laboratory for Advanced Scientific
>> Computing and Applications
>>
>> Meeting Location:
>>    Please note that this meeting will be held at IBM, 590 Madison Ave,
>>    12th floor, corner of 57th Street, and not at Google.  This is
>>    the building with the IBM logo on the front of the building.
>>
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>> Books!!!
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>>    of various new titles.  One of these could be yours, all you have
>>    to do is agree to review the book within a reasonable period of
>>    time.
>>
>> Swag (Give Away):
>>    During/after the meeting... unusually terrific swag may be given
>>    away.
>>
>> Stammtisch:
>>    After the meeting ... You may wish to join up with other NYLUGgers
>>    over at TGI Fridays located at 677 Lexington Avenue and 56th
>>    Street, second floor. Northeast corner.
>>
>> Python Workshops:
>>    We are rounding up a group that wants to learn Python.  This would
>>    be a great time to attend our workshop.
>>
>>    Those interested in working on the new NYLYG Web site are
>>    strongly encouraged to attend also.  Work has just begun on the
>>    new NYLUG Jobs site.
>>
>>    The workshops meet every other Tuesday, at the NY Public Library,
>>    Hudson Park Branch.  66 Leroy St. NY NY from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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>>
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>> stuff.
>>
Hello!
Oh my!!!
Mike I owe you a Coke, RSN.

Jim he's right. Given the merely obvious, the Doctor and I shall be there.

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